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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ex-Nusra fighters to be evacuated from Syrian camp
2017-05-08
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Agreement has been reached to evacuate maimed fighters of the hardline Islamist group formerly known as Nusra Front from Yarmouk, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, to rebel-held Idlib province, Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV reported on Sunday.

The agreement is the second phase of an earlier deal to evacuate people from two towns besieged by rebels, and two towns besieged by pro-government forces, the first phase of which was implemented last month, al-Manar reported.

The maimed fighters and some others accompanying them would form a group of about 50, reported the television channel, which is based in Leb. Hezbollah, also from Leb, is a close military ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
Nusra Front was the official branch of al-Qaeda in Syria until a year ago, when it broke formal allegiance to the global jihadist movement and renamed itself. It has since joined a number of other Death Eater groups under the new name Tahrir al-Sham.

Both Nusra Front and later Tahrir al-Sham have at times fought alongside other rebel groups, including those that operate under the banner of the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, against the government and at times have clashed with them.

Yarmouk, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, is the location of a large Paleostinian refugee camp. Parts of the area are held by the government, parts by rebels including Tahrir al-Sham, and parts by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
An earlier deal involved evacuating civilians from the rebel-besieged Shi'ite Moslem towns of Kefraya and al-Foua in Idlib province in return for the departure of civilians and Death Eater fighters from Zabadani and Madaya, near Damascus.
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